Brotherly Love

A twist on a travel poster for Philadelphia, with a focus on crustacean cuisine.

2016

Barbara Rose

Classroom trading card.

Digital illustration

2016

Bush Foundation Ecosystem Grants

The Bush Foundation has been investing in communities and ideas in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native nations that share that geography since 1953. It was an honor to illustrate for their Ecosystem Grants program.

Weisman Art Museum Student Rental - Native MN Clovers

Center of Excellence Logo / People Serving People

Summer of 2017 I had the pleasure of designing a logo for The Center of Excellence. I worked within their branding guidelines and vision to create this welcoming, inclusive logomark, representing the nurturing ethos and strong, deep, community-based roots this incredible organization has built.

The Center of Excellence is an affiliate of People Serving People, a Nonprofit organization assisting with transitional housing and social services in Hennepin County.

The Brooklyn Botanica

Logo and identity design for The Brooklyn Botanica, NYC.

@thebrooklynbotanica

2018

Europe 1963

In 1963, my grandfather Earl F. "Budd" Cheit left his position at the University of California for a year-long sabbatical in Europe, bringing along his wife and their four children. His photographs from their time on the great continent are both haunting and beautiful.

This book combines text from Budd's oral history with my own digital remastering and curating of his photographs.

MPLS Chain of Lakes

Skyview Strategies

This was a super fun one for a fantastically unparalleled leader in Nonprofit consulting.

Skyview Strategies, based in San Francisco, CA, provides strategic communications and strategic planning services for social justice organizations, nonprofits, and foundations. They specialize in providing big-picture strategies and practical tactics to social sector organizations looking to launch a project, actualize a big idea, raise their visibility, or influence their field in creative ways.

Full rebrand, 2018

Little Rock 9

1957, three years after Brown vs. the Board of Education outlawed segregation in U.S. schools, the NAACP enrolled nine African-American students into the previously all-white Little Rock Public School as the first step of the state’s integration plan. But the governor did not approve. He sent in the Arkansas national guard, who, along with a white mob, attempted to block their entry.

In response, the NAACP sent a team of attorneys headed by Thurgood Marshall, along with armed police escorts, to protect the nine students. Through picketing, racial slurs, and violence, the kids persevered, their courage earning them a quality of education that was long overdue.

Digital Illustration, 2016

NEXT NOW Interiors

Internal spreads published in NEXT NOW, MCAD's Alumni Newsletter.

Published 2016

Take that trip

Sage advice.

Digital illustration on greeting card.

2016

Samantha

In 1982, the U.S. was deep in the throes of the Cold War. 10-year old Samantha Smith was troubled. So she picked up her pencil and wrote a letter to the head of the KGB. "Why do you want to conquer the world?" she asked.

Mr. Andropov replied. For her inquiry she was gifted a trip to Moscow, as a pint-sized "goodwill ambassador," a title which she carried back to the United States. Samantha spent the next three years speaking with dignitaries and heads of state as an advocate for peace, until perishing suddenly in an airplane crash along with her father, at age 13.